Authorize

imp. & p. p. Authorized; p. pr. & vb. n. Authorizing

1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.
2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage.
3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report.

   A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.

5. To justify; to furnish a ground for.

   Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories.